Cotton-chopper.



P. SIEGLINGER.

COTTON SHOPPER.

APPLIoATIoN FILED 11u12, 1910.

994,343. Y Patented June 6,1911.

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`FRED SIEGLINGER, OF LONE WOLF, OKLAHOMA.

COTTON-CHOPPER.

Application kled May 12,r 1910. SeralNo. 560,781.

vSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1911.

To all whom it may concern: Y y y Be it knownthat I, FRED SIEGLINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lone Wolf, in the county of Kiowa and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton- Choppers, of which the following is a speciication.

My invention relatesto improvements 1n cotton choppers, the primary object of the invention being to provide a generally improved device of this class of simple, cheap, and efficient construction which may be readily and quickly attached to or detached from a suitable wheeled vehicle such as a cultivator, without in any way interfering with the functions and operations of the'latter.

With the above mentioned ends in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in one of its embodiments in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

Referring to the drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved cotton chopper as applied to an ordinary cultivator. Fig. 2, a perspective view of the improved cotton chopper detached from the cultivator and illustrating its actions upon the cotton stalks.

Similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

The improved cotton chopper comprises a chopping wheel consisting of a suitable wheel body, such for example, as a wheel hub l, provided with spoke members 2, carrying a plurality of rim sections 3, prefer ably of substantial width as shown and provided or armed with a plurality of radially' extending transversely arranged chopping blades or cutters 4.

As a means for mounting and carrying the chopping wheel in proper position, said chopping wheel is carried by a supporting beam or double armed chopping wheel carrying member 5, adapted to be pivotally secured at its front end to a suitable wheeled vehicle, as for example, to the lower portion of the cultivator arch member 6, as shown in Fig. l, of the drawings.

As a means for lowering and raising the supporting beam member 5, `whereby the chopping wheel may be carried from and to its operative position','the rear or free end of the carryingmember `5, is provided with a chain 7, connected to a hand, lever 8, said Ahand lever 8, being connected, in the present instance, to the rear tongue member or frame -9, of the cultivator so that by swinging said hand leverjS, to an opposite or reversed position to that shown in Fig. l, the beam member 5, together with the chopping wheel will be elevated in an obvious manner, the Stoa or pin member 10, limiting and serving to old the hand lever 8, in its elevated po* sition.

The rim sections 3, are spaced from each other so as to provide cotton stalk receiving recesses or openings 11, adapted to receive certain of the stalks and the `rim sections and chopping blades or cuttersV are adapted to press down and cut upon the ground the intermediate cotton Vstalks as indicated. Any desired nulnber of chopping blades or cutters 4:, may be provided, it being obvious that the rim sectionsvare adapted to press down rcertain of the cotton stalks while the blades or cutters are adapted to cut said stalks by'pressing and cutting same upon the ground as indicated.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the operation'and advantages of my invention will be readily understood.

Having thus described an embodiment of my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

In a cotton chopper and cultivator, in combination, a cultivator arch having its side members provided with wheels and cultivators k extending rearwardly therefrom, a tongue member secured to and extending horizontally above and to the rear of the upper portion of said arch member, a choping wheel, extending between said cultivators, a hand-lever pivotally secured to the rear of said tongue member and normally depending therefrom, a chain member secured to tivators, when raised to a predetermined 10 said chopping Wheel and Connected to said height. hand-lever intermediate the pivoted and In testimony whereof I have affixed my free ends thereof, and a stop pin on said signature, in presence of two witnesses. tongue member 1n front of the pivoted portion of said hand-lever for holding said FRED SIEGLINGER' hand-lever in an elevated posit-ion whereby Witnesses:

said chopping wheel may be supported in an L. S. LAWRENCE,

elevated position, independently of said culp WM. F. JOHANNABER.

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